emqx/lib-ee/emqx_ee_schema_registry/README.md
Thales Macedo Garitezi 97b94b8882 feat: implement schema registry for 5.0 (avro)
Part of https://emqx.atlassian.net/browse/EMQX-9251

This ports part of the Schema Registry app from 4.x to 5.0.  Here,
only support for Avro is added.  Subsequent PRs will follow to add
support for other formats.
2023-04-11 14:50:45 -03:00

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# EMQX Schema Registry
EMQX Schema Registry for managing various of schemas for
decoding/encoding messages.
To use schema in rule engine, a schema name should be passed to the
SQL functions that decode/encode data, like:
```sql
SELECT
schema_decode('sensor_notify', payload) as payload
FROM
"message.publish"
WHERE
topic = 't/1'
```
## Using schema registry with rule engine
```
+---------------------------+
| |
Events/Msgs | | Events/Msgs
--------------------> EMQX |------------------>
| |
| |
+-------------|-------------+
|
HOOK |
|
+-------------v-------------+ +----------+
| | Data | |
| Rule Engine ------------- Backends |
| | | |
+------|-------------|------+ +----------+
|^ |^
Decode|| ||Encode
|| ||
+------v|------------v|-----+
| |
| Schema Registry |
| |
+---------------------------+
```
## Architecture
```
| |
Decode | [APIs] | Encode
| |
| | [Registry]
+------v--------------v------+
REGISTER SCHEMA | |
INSTANCE | | +--------+
-------------------> | | |
[Management APIs] | Schema Registry ------ Schema |
| | | |
| | +--------+
| |
+----------------------------+
/ | \
+---/---+ +---|----+ +---\---+
| | | | | |
[Decoders] | Avro | |ProtoBuf| |Others |
| | | | | |
+-------+ +--------+ +-------+
```
- Register schema instance: adds a new instance of a schema of a
certain type. For example, when the user may have several Avro or
Protobuf schemas that they wish to use with different data flows.